Julie Hemment

Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and Ngos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to and growing collaboration with members of the group Zhenskii Svet (Women's Light) in the provincial city of Tver'.

Produktdetails

• New Anthropologies of Europe
• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218919
• ISBN-10: 0253218918
• Artikelnr.: 21068313

Autorenporträt

Julie Hemment is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gendered Interventions
1. Muddying the Waters: Participatory Action Research in Tver'
2. Querying Democratization: Civil Society, International Aid, and the
Riddle of the Third Sector
3. Gender Mainstreaming and the Third-Sectorization of Russian Women's
Activism
4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Setting up a
Crisis Center in Tver'
5. A Tale of Two Projects
Conclusion
Notes
List of References
Index